[License-discuss] Request Discussion Pre-Reviews For New Licenses (chewkeanho-rlos, chewkeanho-cos, chewkeanho-gpos)

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Tue Oct 1 15:47:38 UTC 2024


On 9/29/24 23:58, (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho via License-discuss wrote:
> The main goal is to create a new set of license frameworks which does 
> not require issuing multiple outbound licenses (e.g. Apache 2.0 for 
> software, CC-BY-ND for images, CC-BY-SA for video, ...) for a single 
> project repository and picked up the latest updates in the market 
> implementations.

Can you explain this goal in more detail?  I think this is the 
interesting part to discuss.

 > Wait,  you mean rlos will not be approved mainly due to reason (1)
 > 
fromhttps://opensource.org/licenses/common-reasons-for-rejection-of-licenses,
 > right? I drafted this based on BSD-3-Clear and BSD-2-Patent licenses.

The BSD-2-Patent license specificially *grants* limited patent rights. 
Your license specifically *denies them*, so I don't understand how it's 
"based on" the approved license.



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Josh Berkus



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